Alexandra Potter > Quotes

“...when you decide you want to be with someone forever, you want forever to start right now.”
― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?

“Forget men, I want to marry my MacBook. It’s dependable, reliable and you can even go shopping with it.”
― Alexandra Potter, You're The One That I Don't Want

“Everyone dreams of finding their soulmate. It's a universal quest. All over the world millions of people are looking for their true love, their amore thier ame soeur, that one special person with whom they will spend the rest of their life.

And I'm no different.

Except it doesn't happen for everyone. Some people spend their whole life looking and never find that person. It's the luck of the draw.

If, by some miracle, you're lucky enough to meet the ONE, whatever you do, don't let them go. Because you don't get another shot at it. Soulmates aren't like buses there's not going to be another one along in a minute. That's why they're called, "THE ONE".”
― Alexandra Potter, You're The One That I Don't Want

“Too many people miss out on real love because they're too busy waiting for the ONE to show up”
― Alexandra Potter, You're (Not) the One

“I am a hopeless romantic. A silly, ridiculous, foolish romantic. I live in a fantasy land. I need to get real. And now, for the first time, I want to get real. I want a real relationship with a real man in the real world–-with all the real problems, faults, and whatever comes with it.”
― Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy

“And so taking the long way home through the market I slow my pace down. It doesn't come naturally. My legs are programmed to trot briskly and my arms to pump up and down like pistons, but I force myself to stroll past the stalls and pavement cafes. To enjoy just being somewhere, rather than rushing from somewhere, to somewhere. Inhaling deep lungfuls of air, instead of my usual shallow breaths. I take a moment to just stop and look around me. And smile to myself.
For the first time in a long time, I can, quite literally, smell the coffee.”
― Alexandra Potter, The Two Lives of Miss Charlotte Merryweather

“For a split second they stared at each other. A fleeting, lasting moment. One person noticing another person out of a whole crowd of strangers.”
― Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo

“Life can change in the blink of an eye. All you have is right now. So don’t ever put off telling someone how you feel about them, don’t assume that they know, because they might not and it might be too late.”
― Alexandra Potter

“When men see an attractive woman, they fantasize about sex. When women see an attractive man they fantasize about a relationship.”
― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?

“I was in love with the idea of him. An ideal of him. Of who I thought he was. Of who he used to be.”
― Alexandra Potter, You're (Not) the One

“And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside.
It was the sound of her heart breaking.”
― Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo

“consider the implications. We think we know what we want, but we can never really know until we've got it. And sometimes when we have, we discover we never really wanted it in the first place - but then it's too late”
― Alexandra Potter, Be Careful What You Wish For

“We are the sum total of our memories.
Memories are the most precious things we have.
Good or bad.
That's what make us who we are.
What would we be without them?”
― Alexandra Potter, Don't You Forget About Me

“Juliet shook her head. The thought of eating anything made her feel nauseous. "No thanks, I'm not hungry."

"Oh yeah, the heartbreak diet," nodded Trudy sagely. "Been there, done that, bought the T-shirt.”
― Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo

“Their eyes met. It had begun. They had begun.”
― Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo

“Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.”
― Alexandra Potter, Who's That Girl?

“But I figure you're never too old to learn. That's when you become old, when you stop being fascinated by things, when you stop wanting to learn and explore ...”
― Alexandra Potter, You're (Not) the One

“I never stopped joking around long enough to realize you weren't laughing anymore.”
― Alexandra Potter, Calling Romeo

“I BELIEVE IN DESTINY, IN FATE, IN THE MAGIC OF THE UNIVERSE.

I BELIEVE WE HAVE NO CONTROL OVER LOVE.

EITHER IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN OR IT'S NOT..”
― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?

“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single girl in possession of her right mind must be in want of a decent man.”
― Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy

“Because you will meet somebody more exceptional than anyone you have ever know. Who will love you warmly as possible. And who will so completely attract you that you will feel you never really loved before.”
― Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy

“Not doing anything can be worse than doing the wrong thing.”
― Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy

“Time has a funny way of airbrushing relationships, removing all the things that were wrong so when you look back it looks much better than it really was.”
― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?

“One day you'll hear that song you both liked on the radio and it won't make you cry. You'll wake up one morning and they won't be the first thing you think about, or the last thing you think about when you're falling asleep at night. Their face won't be the one you see any more when you close your eyes, or in a crowd when you're walking down a street. And when something makes you laugh, or cry, they won't be the person you want to share it with.”
― Alexandra Potter, Going La La

“If you want a man who's commited, go look in a mental hospital.”
― Alexandra Potter, Do You Come Here Often?

“If the worst is going to happen, it'll happen. Worrying can't protect you from that. And if it doesn't happen then you've missed out on all the time that when you could have been having fun”
― Alexandra Potter, Who's That Girl?

“My chest tightens: seeing him so upset breaks my own heart. 'Don't you ever wish you could make that bit go away?" I say, feeling angry at the past. 'That you could erase those painful memories, forget they every happened, just remember the happy times you had together?'

'You must never say that,' he reprimands sternly.
'But why not?' I look at him in surprise.
'Because it's the bad memories that makes you appreciate the good ones. Don't ever wish them away. it's like your nan always used to say, "You need both the sun and the rain to make a rainbow".”
― Alexandra Potter, Don't You Forget About Me

“just in case" is the curse of packing”
― Alexandra Potter, Be Careful What You Wish For

“C'mon, you're gonna get upset sometimes. Breaking up is a shitty business. Someone always gets hurt. This time it happens to be you.”
― Alexandra Potter, Going La La

“Sounds incredible? Hell, it does. But perhaps we all need to believe something incredible once in a while.”
― Alexandra Potter, Me and Mr. Darcy